When you pretend to care about your employees health, yet you make people take unpaid sick days. Corporate america - ouch.

"HR is not there to protect you from anything. They are there to protect the company from you". ~ 1 million dollar line.

I think CEO retirements should be limited to pizza and ice cream parties - no retirement benefits

- we force you to come to the office - You contract covid from a coworker - You use up your sick leave. - You take unpaid leave. - We fire you because of lack of productivity. Wtf??!!??

HR and middle management have been working hard to justify their positions over the past year and a half. That's why there is such a push to get people back into the office.

Never, ever go to HR, just never.

Earlier this year I asked my employer to make my work at home permanent. It was a one on one meeting and my boss is pretty laid back. I was told at the time to not tell other employees but that they were thinking about closing our physical location and having everyone work from home anyway. I wish more companies were understanding of their employees.

Just started a new corporate job and the manager just set off a number of red flags. Apparently, if there is a regional emergency(such as a hurricane/tropical storm) and our power goes out, we “can go to office to finish work”. If we don’t show up at the office, we are considered a “no show” and can be disciplined. I almost laughed because I’m going to be the first one to evacuate. Im not risking my life fir a corporation.

"To make this a little fun, we plan to hold an ice cream celebration if we hit the mark." This is kindergarten all over again.

CEO promotes employee health and wellbeing by enticing them with junk food.

I got fired by questioning the management policies about working from home. They told me I was rude and they gave me an ultimatum. Man, it feels good that I was not there anymore. Now I have a job that is 100% remote. Please keep posting videos like this.

Fun/great thing about Germany: If you get sick during your vacation, you will get the vacation days back. Since vacation days are for recreation not for curing sicknesses.

"Why not let them work from home?" Businesses opened this Pandora's box and they're trying so hard to shut it...but they've already shown it works for a whole year.

My Company said " If you moved during covid more than 50 miles away you will be allowed to work from home" I have always lived over 50 miles away. For the last 5 years every year I have tried to go remote and they always find some magical excuse why I get blown off. The company states " We value our work life balance" Yeah , only SOME people work life balance matters and not everybody. I have a family, young children and spending 60 hours a week commuting for 20 and getting paid for 40 seems ridiculous. I don't care about the culture. I want to be left alone - I don't feel safe down in Minneapolis either. So disappointed.

I mean if everyone just does not come in, problem solved. The people have the power to force their hand.

In my experience, the more someone pushes an agenda the more suspicious you should be. That being said I would think any CEO would be happy not to have to pay the overhead involved with having more people in the office. And what the heck is this big obsession with pizza and ice cream? Give me gift cards, a raise, a car, something useful and tangible for the long term, not crap that isn't even good for you.

It’s disturbing that an employer is prying into people’s medical history demanding explanations for why some are not vaccinated. It’s none of his goddamn business.

Starting to hate the whole corporate thing ngl.

"HR is not there to protect you, HR is there to protect the company from you" Gold of quotes by J Fluke.

Love when Josh says “ why not let them work from home” after each of the company’s social distance policy.

You definitely don't ever want to go to HR to complain. I worked somewhere years ago where a co-worker complained to HR that his boss was vaping during multi-hour meetings. Less than a month after that, he was let go as part of a "Reduction in Force".

The pretending game has gotta stop… nothing makes me more upset as when corporate tells us they care about employees… WHILE themselves working from home safely! boils my blood honestly.

Synovus Financial, a company out of Georgia, did pretty much the same thing to my wife. They had everyone working from home. Everything was fine, it was proof that her job and majority of the people in that office, that the job could be done at home with no issues. Then randomly they wanted to bring everyone back to the office. So they sent out a questionnaire trying to see if there would be people that would be willing to come back to the office. My wife answered no because she is at risk (This was before the vaccine) next thing you know my wife gets laid off during holidays. Synovus is the worst.

The role of HR is to protect company from employees. That’s it.

He wants people to come back to work but if they get sick they have to be “assessed” for legitimacy. Man oh man. Keep it up, Joshua!

they cant keep the commercial real estate prices artificially inflated if the prisoners with jobs work from home.

I've got 37 years (and counting) in IT corporate jobs and so glad I am retiring in the next year or so. But very happy that technology is allowing this latest generation of workers to change their work/life paradigm and pushing back hard on these corporation that, for years, have had a stranglehold on our lives. So glad to be alive to witness this moment in history.

Lol. You're single handedly making workplace "Ice Cream" a new meme.

I love how conditional covid-19 concerns are when it comes to commercial real estate and micro management issues.

We need an update for this after the 31st or whenever the ice cream challenge ends. Would love to see how this CEO handles not hitting his 70%

My former CEO insisted that we "trust the science." Every week (he bought our old company) he would get up there and spout his rhetoric at us. He would shame people for having questions, having concerns. He would shame people for not wearing masks, or getting vaccinated, or not vaccinated enough, or not liking the weekly tests (or thinking they were stupid and not accurate given that at the end they were take-home tests). And yet all the stuff he spouted was incorrect. All of it. The mask efficacy, the vaccine efficacy, the danger of the disease, who it affects, how it affects them. We worked in an environment (a shop) where all of us were at least 8 feet apart all day long. Often more than that. We all wore respirators as a general rule anyway (carbon fiber dust was in the air), and we all socially isolated during breaks. But none of it was enough for this yahoo. We all had to do as he said, not as the science dictated. As I've said before, it's about ego and control. Nothing else.

You guys really have it bad in America. Damn. Here in France, you called in sick for COVID, you wouldn't hear from anyone at work for like 14 days. Peace.

I’m so glad my new job will be remote only and forever.

Ice cream socials FTW!!! Glad to see we still haven’t evolved as humans with ice cream being the corporate carrot.

Everyone should go and buy the most expensive ice cream they can afford. Then they should each send the CEO a picture of themselves enjoying the ice cream.

I love how managers can just say "go talk to HR"... they can avoid any discussions. I think politicians will start doing that. "go talk to HR" sort of like "go talk to someone who cares"

They should all look for new jobs. The CEO is a mega tool.

I will hire my first employee this autumn. She can work where she wants, when she wants and what time of day she prefers. She just have to take care of "her" customers. Why should I tell her what to do, I hire her for her skills and not to control what she does all day long (like many middle managers or CEO). I run a company, not a kindergarden. No icecream needed.

I just thought of this and i am probably reaching, but i imagine most of ceos thinking something like "my kids love ice cream surely my employees will too" infantilizing them in the process

Working at the office instead of at home isn't a life risking thing anymore than going to the grocery store or a restaurant is. People want to work from home because its far easier, less stressful, and more productive because people are focused on their job instead of working their way into office cliches and trying to make it like high school.

Agree on the not sharing personal medical information with your employer.

One can still get covid while being vaccinated & healthy Hope these poor employees leave the trashy company that doesn't value their hard work

I imagine this guy just sitting in the breakroom after hours by the freezer with 8 buckets of ice cream screaming "WHY WON'T THESE PEOPLE GET VACCINATED FOR FREE ICE CREAM??"

Lol finance industry is cold and ruthless. They don’t care. 5 years in financial institutions, NEVER AGAIN

Sadly this is going on at pretty much every bank right now. People I know that work at other banks are dealing with the same thing as well. I really enjoy seeing emails going out and calls with MD’s stating we have done so well working from home and set record breaking profits. Then in the same sentence say we have to go back into the office, just to do what we have been doing for 18 months. Also follow up on this past the 31st of Aug

"If 69% of our ""employee family"" register as having had a vasectomy/their tubes tied and wear a hat you'll all get a [plain] pizza party! [or you're fired]" -corporate oligarch

"If we get above the 70% mark of CEOs pulling their head outta their ass, we'll have a potluck! Isn't that fun! Make sure to reach out to HR if your dish is allowed though."

This CEO is a piece of work. Since he clearly doesn't care about his employees wellbeing, it'd be nice to see what he'll do if the entire back-office refuses to work for 2 weeks.

Lol, that is so wild to me. I love the way companies think just saying "we care about you and your families" in email form, is enough to show they have any type of solidarity or understanding of any employees' plight. This is why you don't have any loyalty to these places, because at the end of the day your life doesn't matter. Just how much money you can bring in, and how much control they can lord over you.

Parent Career Day: Kid #1: My daddy is a fireman Kid #2 : My mommy is a doctor kid #3: My daddy organizes ice cream and pizza parties!

If there was ever to be a war between good and evil, it would be the world vs all HR departments.

You're amazing, thank you for doing this work joshua!

Out of curiosity, if you contract some breakthrough varient of the virus from a coworker despite being vaccinated; and your employer had forced you to work on site; would that be considered an "on the job injury". I imagine right now there's some law firm somewhere out there, just waiting for the right big enough outbreak so they can launch their massive class action suit.

*some despicable company and its shitty policies* J. Fluke: So I started blasting!

Your HR quote is spot on. NEVER TALK TO HR!!! They will fire you quicker than the lazy employee that should’ve been gone months ago.

This is why employees in the modern day need to organize, and whether that means forming a union or just demanding, on a department or company wide level, that you get results, it needs to be done.

Everyone who wants ice cream I am pretty sure they can go buy it themselves 😂

So I used to work for them.... they care more about management because they expect them to work 50+ hours a week on a 40 hour salary.... soo they don't have to pay overtime... so if management is sick they will miss out on all this free work...

We've had FOUR employees die from COVID. FOUR. Still have to come in at least 2 times a week now despite working successfully from home full time for over a year. Insanity. So no, even an employee dying will change their thirst for control over your life.

I’m not a lawyer but wouldn’t this be a HIPPA violation? I didn’t think employers could request this kind of information because this kind of information can be abused. I guess if it’s voluntary, but this seems like a privacy suit waiting to happen.

Hope that CEO watches your video and feels like crap knowing everyone outside of his personal power tripping environment he enforces at work thinks he's a womble

As long as people realize they are making money for someone, they might as well do it in comfort or else let them find someone else.

"I was so worried about being able to afford food and rent, but then my boss gave us all one scoop of vanilla ice cream."

So glad I found your channel! These types of CEOs are complete garbage, thank you for calling them out!

If there's no need to be in an office, and you've been remote the past year and a half, then quit any job requiring you be in the office. We've seen that remote work works. So many people prefer that. Find a remote job. Many places are these days. Your other options are to organize your co workers together and refuse to work in the office. The executives cannot afford to cut everyone off. If you're really dedicated, organize so that if the boss fires any worker for working from home, you all quit. The other option is to start your own business. Find something you enjoy and build a business that fits with your schedule. Those don't all guarantee results, and building a business doesn't mean necessarily fewer hours. People have been rethinking the way they work. I think if some executives think they're special because they run a company, and you guys hate it there. Leave for something that is more fulfilling. Tons of people are doing it these days (called the Great Resignation). People are tired of these executives. These are people that all enjoy working and work hard without wanting to be babysat and follow stupid rules that so many managers don't actually understand

“Let me know if you have any questions” means “If you ask me anything I’ll find some busy work to punish you with”

Thank you for telling us this. I wrote a scathing email to this credit union and I hope the CEO reads it. I'm appalled at his actions and hope he's fired.

The reason most companies are doing this is a matter of exploit, cost cut, and profits. Think of it this way, if I can make it so that work from home makes it so that I am allowed to cut your wages, that's so dam good. In fact, that's what my company did to us. Because we were forced to work from home, and all the sudden low job availability, my company cut everyone's salary because we aren't being productive. Why? Because they can. We were still as productive as we've always have been. In fact, even more so now.

lol. what's with ice creams and these guys?

The persuasion of this CEO to get his employees to get the jab is unreal and it's not because he cares. It's because of tax break incentives. If I were those employees, they should present a liability letter for the employer to sign. I got the template if anyone needs it.

For the way things have turned out, things we ALREADY knew at the time but it was pretended we didn’t… these CEOs that tried to force a medical procedure on their employees should be in jail

That is insane, regarding sick leave. Here in Ireland we have a right to take annual leave days when not sick. Meaning that if I, for instance, break a leg in a skiiing accident while on leave, the annual leave stops and sick leave starts.... and I can take the unspent annual leave later in the year. I know someone who experienced this exact scenario

what if you are lactose-intolerant diabetic and ice-cream denier? Where is the motivation to come back!

“Boomer mentality” ...agreed!

Josh, best to tell those folks to warm up their resumes and jump ship now. Been through this before, under different circumstances, and it is just an exercise to identify to lay people off. Those that have interacted with HR are already branded.

Joshua, I'm so with you on this topic.

Maybe they can appropriate MedTechs: "Icecream Baby" motivational video

*Ceo talking to employees while stroking ice cream:* You..... want this...... Don't you

keep up the great work josh. i hated the place i use to work where they all talk about teamwork and family and such non sense then screw you over without a care.

Big fan of the channel man. It’s nice to see there’s someone close in age that has the same opinions and outlooks on the things you’ve talked about. I own an ice cream truck business, I’ve been running it for about 2 years now and you’d be amazed at how many companies have reached out to me to do “employee appreciation events” at their major corporations. These aren’t just mom and pop shops or little businesses. I’m talking absolutely massive companies that will have me come out and serve their employees. They won’t hesitate to pay whatever the total comes out to. There’s been times I’ve calculated the numbers and think there’s no way they’d pay what I’m charging but they don’t care because it’s way less than actually giving everyone a raise or pto vacation. I obviously don’t turn down the business but it feels ridiculous going to these companies with a bunch of grown ass adults. It’s nice being on the other side man. No lie. One thing I do, is make a mental note of what companies are having me come out and do this so if I ever end up needing a job in the future I can avoid these businesses like the plague.

Thank goodness for Josh Fluke. Love your channel and what you do.

“They’re not a culture fit” oh my god the accuracy

Whenever there is such a heavy push for anyone to do anything there is some motivating factor, likely money and lots of it.

The thing was always rigged. Problem is, now that you know the rules of corporate, do you join them, or break them.

These CEOs who care more about lower level employees being "at the office" more than their actual output reminds me a lot of those teachers who go to university and get their masters and become a high level teacher at a school and end up caring more about what the students are wearing at school than their education.

Damn. Those emails would get my 2 week notice in response.

I worked from home pre-pandemic and still do. Be slightly careful what you wish for with transitioning to perma work from home. That makes your job very attractive for outsourcing.

My ex-employer made us all sign a vaccine status paper. Then there was a policy put forth that said something like this, "People with vaccines and who get covid will be able to take sick leave and vacation. People without the vaccination cannot take vacation or sick leave." It was pretty messed up.

Early watch gang rise up.

Had to watch a training video about corporate expensing various things. The video shows an example of 2 people going to a restaurant after a "very successful business meeting with clients". The two employees discuss which restaurant to choose from a list, employee A suggests the 4 star restaurant $$$$, employee B suggests the 3 star restaurant $$$ and even says because it's a more reasonable price. The video then quizzes me and asks which of them made the right choice. I choose B because obviously the company is cheap. I was wrong. It was a trick question, instead, a third location on the restaurant list, a little snack shack with 2 stars and only 1 $ symbol was the "right" choice. So basically, after closing this multimillion dollar deal, go get yourself a gas station burrito and a 99 cent iced tea. Because fuck you that's why. It shocks me that anyone could be fool enough to feel a sense of loyalty to organizations like this.

😂. You literally made me laugh out loud when you said he would reward his employees with ice cream!🤣

I worked at a tech company that would fire employees if they exceeded their PTO for being sick. You were not allowed to have any type of unpaid day off. They only gave 5 PTO days per year! And they wondered why they had a high turnover.

And of course, while having "people come first" as a "core value", that CEO gives preferential treatment to senior management... Nice going, Ryan... "Be kind" only means be kind to upper management, never the other way around, eh, Ryan?

Master Fluke is the hero we all knew we needed, but weren't allowed to articulate [instead we were asked to go to HR]

This is 100% about control and poor leadership, as someone who has held the role of a COO you must trust your employees. The workplace has forever changed, as a leader you either adapt or risk losing your talent.

This reminded me of a case that happened in my country: a company had their call center employees working in the office (wouldn't allow them to work from home), and they specifically told them that if they told anyone or called a doctor if they caught the virus, they'd be fired. Never forget: wether they treat their employees righr or wrong, a company's goal is ALWAYS to make money. By any means.

pssst Joshua, dont look - but I think there is someone behind you!

I suppose health insurance premiums could be part of the motivation, but honestly I think this guy wants to use 70% as a benchmark to force everyone to come back to the office. This way he can’t be sued if there’s a Covid outbreak because he’ll just say they were following CDC guidelines of some form or another

Ice cream at home is more fun than ice cream at work... Also, some people can't eat ice cream. Type 1 diabetic shout-out! Thank you so much for continuing to point out these clowns.

*laughs in european* wtf is wrong with jobs in the us? feels like slavery with extra steps. approval for unpaid days off?! wtf